La Musique

Monday, December 14, 2009

Upper Room


I have been really blessed. all my birthday wishes are really coming true.

1. portable amp. ++ new guitar, strap, bag
2. headphones. ++ sunglasses
3. new shirts. ++ new jeans

Indeed God is able to do much more than what we ask for. all the "++"es are not my birthday wishes, but indeed they have been added onto me. God is really good and faithful, and as I put His kingdom first, all these things were added onto me. wasn't easy to put His kingdom first though, its a sacrifice.

just because I didn't flow that well with the worship leader doesn't reflect my quiet time with God. Somehow someone just thought there was a correlation, but my relationship with God is for no one but God. I do not boast about my quiet time with God, neither do I want to attribute my successes that I had to the quiet time that I had with God, but its by God's grace that I am able to achieve those stuff. my quiet time with God is just simply to seek God and His presence, to be renewed and recharged daily. To lift my prayer request to Him and to daily submit myself to Him. I don't give credit to my quiet time, but to my God, His grace abounding for the good works in my life. It is in no rights of any man or woman to judge another person's quiet time.

but speaking of quiet time, just a point of reflection. How's your upper room doing? For some, perhaps its due for a spring cleaning, dusty and with cobwebs everywhere. for some, its speck and span. How's yours doing?

The upper room is where you seek God and where you meet God face to face. Body, soul and spirit involvement in seeking and it is where the glory of God dwells. It is where the solutions to our problems lies, and where we encounter God, we can find comfort, peace and love of God, where Rhema manifests and where the whole world just fades and its just you and God. everyone have got their own upper room. maybe they call it in a different name. secret place, prayer closet etc. but its one and the same.

so, how's your upper room? perhaps its time to visit there once again, and be consistent in that. perhaps the buzz of life has taken over your time to visit that place again. set aside time to visit that place once again. you'll be amazed at what you'll find in there.best of all, it is at where you are. you don't need talents, you don't need skill. all you need is a willing heart, an open, sensitive, patient heart. its a whole new way of living when you set your heart on seeking and pleasing God.

i'll just side-track a bit. God is amazing, being able to turn situations around. what seems to be a bad thing turned to good. arguments turn into a strengthened faith in God, sickness turned into seeing the truth of life and turning to God, ridiculing turned into an opportunity to share faith with friends. I stand in amazement just looking at all the things that has been happening around me and thanking God for them. a calculative brother becomes generous. and one that is so distracted, so curious about so many things now focusses on his vision. so much has happened this year, but I believe there is more to come. 2009 has been a year of great change, but 2010 is gonna be a greater year yet. gonna take the campus by storm =)

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